AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory, inflammation, autoimmune, oncology, infection and neuroscience diseases. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.
Business & Industry
- Novartis and life sciences companies commit expertise and assets to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic alongside Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Amgen and the Amgen Foundation commit up to $12.5 million to support COVID-19 relief efforts
- Roche response to COVID-19 pandemic
- AstraZeneca to donate 9 million face masks to support healthcare workers around the world in the fight against COVID-19
- Novartis commits to donate up to 130 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to support the global COVID-19 pandemic response
Research & Development
- Experimental AI tool predicts which COVID-19 patients develop respiratory disease
- Nafamostat is expected to prevent the transmission of new coronavirus infection (COVID-19)
- Singapore modelling study estimates impact of physical distancing on reducing spread of COVID-19
- CAR macrophages go beyond T cells to fight solid tumors
- Vivli to launch a portal for sharing data from COVID-19 trials
- Understanding how COVID-19 affects children vital to slowing pandemic
- Favipiravir flu drug 'clearly effective' in treating COVID-19
Conferences & Events
- Pre-Filled Syringes West Coast 2021
- Pre-Filled Syringes East Coast Conference 2020
- SMi's 4th Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology West Coast
- SMi's 20th Annual Pain Therapeutics Conference 2020
- SMi's 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical Microbiology East Coast
- SMi's 22nd Annual Superbugs & Superdrugs Conference 2020
- SMi Presents the 3rd Annual Conference: Injectable Drug Delivery 2020
Regulatory Affairs
- The FDA is facilitating access to convalescent plasma collected from recovered COVID-19 patients
- FDA continues to facilitate development of COVID-19 treatments
- FDA and FTC warn seven companies selling fraudulent products that claim to treat or prevent COVID-19
- FDA approves new treatment for adults with Cushing's disease
- FDA approves first generic of Daraprim